Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] Python: Drop support for Python 3.6

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 14.02.2023 um 19:35 hat John Snow geschrieben:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 7:31 PM John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Howdy, this series increases our minimum python version to 3.7.
> >
> > CI: https://gitlab.com/jsnow/qemu/-/pipelines/771780626
> >     (All green!)
> > GL: https://gitlab.com/jsnow/qemu/-/commits/python-require-37
> >
> > Patches 1 and 2 are loose pre-requisites; I'd like to merge them into
> > qemu.git within the week whether or not we take this series. I'd
> > appreciate an "ACK" on those specifically. They're just riding along
> > here because they make this series a bit nicer.
> >
> > Patches 3-6 are the hard pre-requisites, and 7 does the dirty work.
> >
> > The motivation for this series is that Python 3.6 was EOL at the end of
> > 2021; upstream tools are beginning to drop support for it, including
> > setuptools, pylint, mypy, etc. As time goes by, it becomes more
> > difficult to support and test against the full range of Python versions
> > that QEMU supports. The closer we get to Python 3.12, the harder it will
> > be to cover that full spread of versions.
> >
> > The qemu.qmp library and the avocado testing framework both have
> > motivations for dropping 3.6 support, but are committed to not doing so
> > until QEMU drops support.
> >
> > So, I'd like to talk about doing it.
> >
> > V2:
> > - Added R-Bs to patch 1
> > - Updated commit message for patch 7 with explicit version info
> > - Added DO-NOT-MERGE to patch 5's title
> > - Tested tests/vm/freebsd, netbsd, and openbsd in addition to full CI
> >
> > RFC:
> >  - Patch 5 is just a proof-of-concept; we need to update lcitool instead.
> >  - Cleber, I need to update your ansible scripts. How do I test them?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > --js
> >
> > John Snow (7):
> >   python: support pylint 2.16
> >   python: drop pipenv
> 
> Hi, I've staged these first two patches to my Python branch.
> 
> (Kevin, Hanna; is that acceptable? I touch some iotests to do some
> trivial linting whack-a-mole.)

Yes, of course.

Kevin